Prep Time: 20 min.

For an easy dinner the whole family will love, try this simple 20-minute Sausage Pasta recipe. It's the perfect comfort food!

This tasty pasta dish is made with pasta, frankfurter sausages, red onion, tomato passata, heavy cream, and peas. Enjoy it hot or cold, for lunch or dinner, too!

You can use any sausage you like (mild or spicy Italian sausage, hotdogs, and chorizo would be equally tasty). Likewise, use whatever pasta you have to hand - you can even replace it with chunks of cooked potato, orzo, or rice.

Top with freshly grated parmesan and finely chopped basil. I love to add pomegranate arils too for a bit of sweetness.

Check out my cheesy quiche, pasta salad with bacon, or baked tacos for other tasty family meals.

Ingredients

Instructions

Serves 4.

1. Cook the pasta according to the instructions.

2. Heat a large frying pan (medium-high) and add a tablespoon of butter.

3. Top the pan with the chopped red onion and fry for 2-3 minutes.

4. Slice the sausages in 1cm chunks (0.4 inch) and add to the hot pan.

5. Once the sausages are slightly browned all over, add the tomato passata.

6. Heat the tomato passata until it starts to simmer.

7. After 2-3 minutes, add the cream.

8. Heat through until the cream has thickened (about 3 minutes). 

9. Add the cooked, drained pasta, frozen peas, sea salt, and pepper (to taste).

10. Top with parmesan cheese and chopped basil.

11. Serve.